The biker Gods must be pissed with me...or maybe I'm just stupid.

[Ms Piggy]

I have a feeling it's the latter.

Arrrrrgggggggghhhhh!!! I've lost my keys

After months of thinking..."I really must get a spare set of keys cut."

Oh yes you guessed it! And the worst part is - there is no-one else to blame!

I had to start work early today b/c I wanted to finish early so I could go to the Airport to "Goodbye" to my Aunty who is flying out tonight at 6pm - she is over from Scotland. So I was running late enough to have to leave without any make up on! Yikes! Got all my gear together just to leave and couldn't find my keys!

They aren't: in my jacket pocket, on my desk, on the bench!

The only thing I can think of is that I dropped them in between the place I park the bike and the walk down to my house. About 500 metres and some public pathway.

The other issue is I have the steering lock on, so I couldn't even try and use another key to switch on the ignition!

How stoopid do I feel? THIS STOOPID!!!!

:eyepoke:

[TonyB]

Ooops. You'll find them, they have to be about somewhere. Are your bike keys seperate from your house keys? My wife has a habit of leaving the keys hanging in the lock of the front door of the house. If they're not seperate- you got inside so they must be about. If they are, then maybe they're still in the bike?
Good luck!

[PuppetMaster]

If they are, then maybe they're still in the bike?Good luck!

Done that before. Get back to my bike on Lambton Quay and the keys are still in it.


Bummer CSL. Im sure they'll turn up. they usually do.

[vifferman]

...maybe they're still in the bike?
Good luck!

Yeah, I've done that. Parked the bike, gone shopping, come back - "Where they phark are my keys?!?"
Oops.
In the ignition...

Good luck!
And you don't have to do anything to make the BikerGodz angry - they are evil, pernicious, capricious and do things just for a bit of amusement....

[pyrocam]

Oh no.

Good luck finding them mate!

I nearly shat myself when I lost my keys last. with my helmet on I didnt hear them fall out in the petrol station. luckily they wernt too far away

[ajturbo]

that will teach you to go on hoilday!!!
and not take us with you!!!!
and have too much fun while you were doing it!!!


honestly.. i hope you do find them... just thinking WHEN you find them..... what are you going to do................new keys???

have a good look matey they cannot be far..
probly down the steps...?

[Velox]

Sorry to hear luv! I did it last week too (except I had a spare set). Still haven't turned up and I'd just made this really cool keyring for it too! It was funny though cause I rode down to the end of our road really slowly looking for if I'd dropped them when I was out possum hunting, and this guy turned up on a bike while I was slowly riding around aimlessly looking at the ground, without helmet etc too.
How are you going to get another ke sorted without a "master copy"? Do you have to get a new ingnition bit?

[TonyB]

And you don't have to do anything to make the BikerGodz angry - they are evil, pernicious, capricious and do things just for a bit of amusement....

OOoo, that's tempting them. Watch out mate, they'll get ya!

[XTC]

i usually find that anything i've lost is always in the last place I look (cause I stop looking when I've found it)

[Hitcher]

You're lucky you've got nice, low cost, easily replaceable keys. Mr Honda's HISS system is another matter entirely (which is why I have recorded the key number as a precaution in case the unthinkable ever happens).

[ManDownUnder]

The other issue is I have the steering lock on, so I couldn't even try and use another key to switch on the ignition!

I did that a while back... the steering lock on the cage and my wife in Taranaki (no-where near the car in Auckland). I could have cabbed home to to get the spare wheel lock key but it worked out to be cheaper to catch a cab to repco, buy a hacksaw, cut off the lock and buy a new one.

So there am I, in my car, hacksawing away at the clublock at midday...

Did anyone stop to question it? NOPE. Hell's bells I can see why car theft is rampant...!

[Ms Piggy]

If they are, then maybe they're still in the bike?
Good luck!

Not in the bike b/c I have the padlock key on there as well, so I have to tkae the keys out of igntion to lock to padlock & steering lock.

I do key my house keys & bike keys seperate.

[XTC]

I did that a while back... the steering lock on the cage and my wife in Taranaki (no-where near the car in Auckland). I could have cabbed home to to get the spare wheel lock key but it worked out to be cheaper to catch a cab to repco, buy a hacksaw, cut off the lock and buy a new one.

So there am I, in my car, hacksawing away at the clublock at midday...

Did anyone stop to question it? NOPE. Hell's bells I can see why car theft is rampant...!

I'm really surprised no offered to help in case you got tired with all that sawing..... Wow sawing is a funny word to look at

[Biff]

Isn't that the most annoying frustrating feeling there is. At least in my house I can blame Ms Biff, the kids & the dog every time 'I' misplace my bike keys (which is very common).

I usually hunt for them for ages, and then they turn up. Guess where - yup, in the seat lock at the rear of the bike. Every bloody time!! Apart from once when I was dying for the loo and placed them on the window sill in the sit and think (sounds like) room. A bloody week it took before I noticed them there.

I hope you find them soon.

[vifferman]

So there am I, in my car, hacksawing away at the clublock at midday...

Did anyone stop to question it? NOPE. Hell's bells I can see why car theft is rampant...!

I think if you're confident or cocky enough, people figure you're not a thief.
Or else they don't care.


I've climbed in the window of just about every house I've owned, and never had anyone blink an eye about it. Also broken into a few cars. One of the guys at a lab I used to work at used to so regularly lock his keys in his car that he kept wire and stuff in his locker so he could break into the car.

Another guy I knew used to be a gang 'associate'. When they were bored, they used to have competitions to see how quickly they could break into each others cars. When they were pissed/stoned, usually, but still in less than 10 seconds.

Heh - old Morris Minors and Oxfords were hard case. I had friends with both, and had a Minor myself. The Oxford could be broken into and started with a screwdriver or any similar-sized key, without any damage. Very handy.
You could hot-wire the Minor by sticking a 20-cent coin across the fuses in the engine compartment (just fitted). Did this one night to a mate, while at a party up a very long driveway. Hotwired it, sent someone inside to tell him it was being stolen, then drove down the drive just fast enough that he couldn't quite catch up running flat out. Stopped at the bottom, and pissed myself laughing when he flung the door open and was gasping his lungs out. After a minute or so, he managed to say: " Y-y-y-ou ...... fucken ... bastard!!"
It was funny at the time.

He kinda got me back though, when he accidentally lost the keys to my Minor. Unfortunately, the windows and door locks were sound, but the boot was unlocked, so I climbed in, levered up the leather tab on the back seat, folded it forward, climbed in, popped the bonnet, and started it with a 20c in the fusebox.
Never found the keys though. Lucky I had a spare...